WordPress Image Compression | Best Ways

Image optimization plays a crucial role in loading speed of a website and many especially webmasters, bloggers out there want to shrink your picture to least possible size by removing unnecessary data or info that are packed in a file.

Best ways of compressing jpeg, png format pictures

Very simple that any one could try is uploading the pictures of any format ( if they are taken in digital SLR camera) to anyone of social media websites especially Facebook because after its uploaded its automatically being shrinked to best possible solutions and later on you could just download the entire album or one by one.

Its same as the later one but the only difference is, it support only JPG formats of maximum size 5MB, we have also tried this one and level of compression was good like their former service. Now you can now use anyone of their website to shrink both the formats which was not possible back in 2013.

Like the previous tool this one is quite handy with drag and drop interface for only jpeg formats. Moreover you will shown a side to side comparison with the quality of image. Even though you didn’t see much change in quality, try to zoom in you will see some loss in the quality but it won’t be a problem to many of us.

WordPress plugins

Before installing any of the plugins make sure that you enough resources from your hosting provider if not having enough resources then use free CDN like CloudFlare and here is our full guide on CloudFlare WordPress integration.

Smushit

Its already discussed on many websites so we are not going to further discuss it. It also to be noted that the service is currently having some issues and official website is down.

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Hai ,There is another way to get best results in Photoshop .Open the file and select file -> save for web -> select corresponding file format say jpeg and you can set the file quality there. It will drastically decrease file size .There is a Good WordPress Plugin to do within wordpress site : https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/